I've been not so diligently updating lately. Learning words but not updating them into my word lexicon blog thing. Oops! Ok here are some of my new ones.


イカレちゃった (いかれる)

I was reading a bilingual translated Snoopy cartoon at work because I was bored, and in one box Lucy said Snoopy had finally "flipped" (as in went crazy) because he was acting strange. Seemed like a cool word. Seems to be also common as いかれてる etc.

とっぷう (突風)

This spring we had a wild wind storm. I was calling it a typhoon but apparently you can't have typhoons in spring but you can have a "squall" (a TOP strength wind storm, makes it kind of easy to remember.)

なきつらにはち (泣き面に蜂)

I have know this idiom for awhile but I don't remember adding it to my lexicon blog, but I used it successfully the other day and so I thought I'd add it here. I had forgot my umbrella on a rainy day, I got a hole in my right shoe (thus a wet sock) and then a problem with my tooth. So I said "when it rains it pours" (or in other words; bad luck happens together) literally this idiom means: bee to a crying face, which in itself is poetically awesome.

はんせんびょう (ハンセン病)

This is one of those times when to laymen such as me , English and Japanese terms are so far apart that I had to guess from context and in this case I was lucky enough to be correct. A good friend of mine is studying Chinese so she volunteered to go to China for a few weeks and help communities with "leprosy" who were traditionally ostracized in China as well as Japan, although now things are looking better for such people in China of course.

てのひら (掌)

I was explaining something to a friend about her "palm" (maybe about fortune tellers? I forget) so needed this word. Anyway that's all of my new words for now!